Documentation of the ioslaves suite

ioslaves is modualar, secure, and service-oriented hosting-machine management system for decentralised self-hosting.

ioslavesd : main deamon, running on each machine
- Service-oriented : systemd services, plain old deamons, plugin services
- Modular : plugin services take advantage of ioslavesd features and hence do not have to re-implement control interface
- Strong authentification with symectrical keys and permissions for each master, with a system of authorized key sending
- Health monitoring (used by network control page), real-time logging (used by macgui)
- Automatic shutdown of the machine
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ioslaves-master
- Control program for slaves with symetric key authentication methods :
  - Raw key storage
  - Arduino external key storage
- macgui : usefull systray graphical interface
  - Slave status + token generation for the network control page
  - Realtime colored and selective logging
  - SSH/SSHFS quick profiles with automatic ssh service start/stop
Network control page + ioslstatd : Network status and management master page
- Real-time status with graphs via ioslstatd and websocket
- Slaves/services/ports status and management; publicly-wakable machines…
- Multiple factor authentication (dynamic password, token got with ioslaves-master via ioslavesd-tokgen…)
ioslavesd-wake-gateway : just a dynslaves slave wake order forwarder service
ioslavesd-xifnetdyndns : dynamic DNS system for slaves, this service running with NSD is contacted by ioslaves periodically to check for external IP change; also provides a dynamic SRV entries mechanism